Imposter [14]
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esp_dragonv2Fandom: Noblesse
Summary: Tao and Takeo get used to the base.
Notes: Among Us AU! :D
Rating: G
Genre: Sci-fi
Word count: 1,206
Total word count: 12,851
Status: Work in progress
Tao ran his finger over his set of cat ears as he watched the people around him. They hadn't been allowed to keep much from the first round - it was mostly just a set of clothes and whatever customisation they'd chosen for themselves. And he'd kept his, because it gave him something to play with as he thought.
And this base was strange.
Well, maybe not strange-strange. It was just that the base had a whole different vibe than what Tao was used to.
[What do you think?] Tao said, perched on one of the boxes that had been unloaded from their dropship, Takeo on the one higher than him. Of course.
[I think you'll like it here,] Takeo said, amusement clear in his voice.
Tao huffed, his visor misting for a second. [Well, yeah! If the minority can become the majority, I want that! I wanna hear my name again!]
The ones who'd been waiting for them introduced themselves by name. And it wasn't weird. Everyone else made it weird by insisting on sticking to the rules and going by their suit colour. Almost everyone anyway. Urgh. As if that was what they would be doing if they ever got promoted past the testing phase. Were they going to have to start calling people 'teal with three-finger width mustard stripe at a sixty degree angle over the middle of the visor' to make sure they could differentiate between people on the ship since there would have to be thousands of variations?
No. They'd be going by name.
Before Takeo could reply, Gold -Yuri, and damn, Tao finally knew what his name was- slowed next to where they were sitting. With a laugh, Tao slid off his box, hearing Takeo do the same. [Just getting my bearings,] Tao said.
Better get moving before Gold got mad at them.
* * *
Tao's eyes widened when he saw the words SECURITY in faded letters on the wall, and he followed the arrow, hearing Takeo's chuckle chase him. Yeah, he was predictable, but come on! Security was the most imp-
"Eh?"
Tao halted at the sight of the security room. "They have three monitors for this entire place?" What kinda low tech base were they running here? And...Tao blinked at the floor. There was a light coating of purple dust there. No tread marks.
"When was someone even in last time?" Tao said, heading for the keyboard. Did they not - no. They didn't. Going by names, taking off their helmets when it wasn't mealtimes, not having someone constantly on security.
They didn't care about catching imposters.
Huh.
It could explain why there was only four left if there was an imposter among them, but then... Hm.
"This place is sooo different!" Tao said, heading out again. They still needed to map out the rest of the base before he settled in to make the security room his.
* * *
Tao snickered when Takeo's walk slowed as they neared Weapons. "Let's see what this looks like then," Tao said.
The door hissed open and Tao's face fell. "Hey! Unfair!" The room was clean, and well-lit. Not exactly sparkling but it was obvious it had at least been used.
Takeo walked over to the monitor in the corner and Tao squinted at the little note that was taped to the wall beside the monitor. It had all the instructions on how to do everything in a scratchy, jagged script.
"Absolutely unfair," Tao groused, the monitor not showing anything. Yet.
"It looks like they were more worried about asteroids hitting them than imposters," Takeo said, testing how responsive the controls were.
"They're both equally dangerous!" Tao huffed, crossing his arms. Sure, asteroids could wipe out the entire base, or destroy enough of the central systems that everyone died anyway, but imposters were the same! They would be killing people off one by one, and if they sabotaged any of the systems, that could also kill off everyone.
"They didn't think so," Takeo said, stepping away from the monitor. "...If they even knew about imposters."
Tao narrowed his eyes, turning that over in his mind as they left Weapons. "I guess..." Not all groups worked with the same information so maybe this group didn't know about imposters? Maybe they didn't even have imposters? But then why was the group so small when they arrived?
Hng. Work accidents did still happen, and this place was pretty rundown, even at a glance.
He exhaled. "We'll find out eventually." And for that, they needed to people-watch once they figured out where everything was.
* * *
Tao threw himself onto his bed. Or Takeo's. It didn't really matter, since they were sharing a room anyway. It was just...better that way - then there was always someone watching their back, even while they were sleeping. No-one had been killed in their quarters as far as Tao knew, but that could be because he'd started sleeping in Takeo's room and the imposter hadn't had the chance to kill them in their sleep.
Why stop doing something that could be working?
"Who do you think the imposters are?" Tao said, staring up at the ceiling as Takeo sat down next to him.
"Em seems the most obvious," Takeo said, fingercombing his hair. Tao snagged a section, helping to sort out Takeo's hair.
Tao snorted. "Yeah. I dunno how he wasn't spaced in the first meeting." There was just something in the way Em looked at things, eyes narrow as if he was looking for weaknesses. And the way he moved was off as well, just a little too fluid. It just didn't read as human, seeing Em move around in Tao's periphery.
"They weren't looking for an imposter," Takeo reminded him.
Tao grimaced. "Right, right." He'd asked Frankenstein what their goal was here, and the doctor (how had he even ended up on this test? Weren't all the doctors and science-y minded people snapped up by the higher ups?) had said it was just to maintain the base.
That was it.
Nothing about imposters.
Tao blew the hair away from his eyes, braiding Takeo's hair. "What do you think about Muzaka?"
Takeo didn't say anything for a few seconds, braiding the rest of his hair. "He spends a lot of time with Em..."
Tao nodded. "Yeah." If Em was an imposter (and he absolutely was), then anyone he spent time with was in danger. Except Muzaka was friendly with Em, even if Em was a little twitchy around him. "It'd be pretty easy for Em to kill Muzaka-" Like when Tao and Takeo had found them alone in the boiler room. "-so Muzaka has to be the other imposter." It made the most sense. From the digging he'd been able to do into the Union's database, tests usually only placed two imposters at max per group.
"Here, anyway," Tao amended. He hadn't recognised everyone he'd shared the dropship with, so who knew just how many imposters there were walking around.
But they had a start, and now they just had to make sure they weren't alone with either Em or Muzaka.
Summary: Tao and Takeo get used to the base.
Notes: Among Us AU! :D
Rating: G
Genre: Sci-fi
Word count: 1,206
Total word count: 12,851
Status: Work in progress
Tao ran his finger over his set of cat ears as he watched the people around him. They hadn't been allowed to keep much from the first round - it was mostly just a set of clothes and whatever customisation they'd chosen for themselves. And he'd kept his, because it gave him something to play with as he thought.
And this base was strange.
Well, maybe not strange-strange. It was just that the base had a whole different vibe than what Tao was used to.
[What do you think?] Tao said, perched on one of the boxes that had been unloaded from their dropship, Takeo on the one higher than him. Of course.
[I think you'll like it here,] Takeo said, amusement clear in his voice.
Tao huffed, his visor misting for a second. [Well, yeah! If the minority can become the majority, I want that! I wanna hear my name again!]
The ones who'd been waiting for them introduced themselves by name. And it wasn't weird. Everyone else made it weird by insisting on sticking to the rules and going by their suit colour. Almost everyone anyway. Urgh. As if that was what they would be doing if they ever got promoted past the testing phase. Were they going to have to start calling people 'teal with three-finger width mustard stripe at a sixty degree angle over the middle of the visor' to make sure they could differentiate between people on the ship since there would have to be thousands of variations?
No. They'd be going by name.
Before Takeo could reply, Gold -Yuri, and damn, Tao finally knew what his name was- slowed next to where they were sitting. With a laugh, Tao slid off his box, hearing Takeo do the same. [Just getting my bearings,] Tao said.
Better get moving before Gold got mad at them.
Tao's eyes widened when he saw the words SECURITY in faded letters on the wall, and he followed the arrow, hearing Takeo's chuckle chase him. Yeah, he was predictable, but come on! Security was the most imp-
"Eh?"
Tao halted at the sight of the security room. "They have three monitors for this entire place?" What kinda low tech base were they running here? And...Tao blinked at the floor. There was a light coating of purple dust there. No tread marks.
"When was someone even in last time?" Tao said, heading for the keyboard. Did they not - no. They didn't. Going by names, taking off their helmets when it wasn't mealtimes, not having someone constantly on security.
They didn't care about catching imposters.
Huh.
It could explain why there was only four left if there was an imposter among them, but then... Hm.
"This place is sooo different!" Tao said, heading out again. They still needed to map out the rest of the base before he settled in to make the security room his.
Tao snickered when Takeo's walk slowed as they neared Weapons. "Let's see what this looks like then," Tao said.
The door hissed open and Tao's face fell. "Hey! Unfair!" The room was clean, and well-lit. Not exactly sparkling but it was obvious it had at least been used.
Takeo walked over to the monitor in the corner and Tao squinted at the little note that was taped to the wall beside the monitor. It had all the instructions on how to do everything in a scratchy, jagged script.
"Absolutely unfair," Tao groused, the monitor not showing anything. Yet.
"It looks like they were more worried about asteroids hitting them than imposters," Takeo said, testing how responsive the controls were.
"They're both equally dangerous!" Tao huffed, crossing his arms. Sure, asteroids could wipe out the entire base, or destroy enough of the central systems that everyone died anyway, but imposters were the same! They would be killing people off one by one, and if they sabotaged any of the systems, that could also kill off everyone.
"They didn't think so," Takeo said, stepping away from the monitor. "...If they even knew about imposters."
Tao narrowed his eyes, turning that over in his mind as they left Weapons. "I guess..." Not all groups worked with the same information so maybe this group didn't know about imposters? Maybe they didn't even have imposters? But then why was the group so small when they arrived?
Hng. Work accidents did still happen, and this place was pretty rundown, even at a glance.
He exhaled. "We'll find out eventually." And for that, they needed to people-watch once they figured out where everything was.
Tao threw himself onto his bed. Or Takeo's. It didn't really matter, since they were sharing a room anyway. It was just...better that way - then there was always someone watching their back, even while they were sleeping. No-one had been killed in their quarters as far as Tao knew, but that could be because he'd started sleeping in Takeo's room and the imposter hadn't had the chance to kill them in their sleep.
Why stop doing something that could be working?
"Who do you think the imposters are?" Tao said, staring up at the ceiling as Takeo sat down next to him.
"Em seems the most obvious," Takeo said, fingercombing his hair. Tao snagged a section, helping to sort out Takeo's hair.
Tao snorted. "Yeah. I dunno how he wasn't spaced in the first meeting." There was just something in the way Em looked at things, eyes narrow as if he was looking for weaknesses. And the way he moved was off as well, just a little too fluid. It just didn't read as human, seeing Em move around in Tao's periphery.
"They weren't looking for an imposter," Takeo reminded him.
Tao grimaced. "Right, right." He'd asked Frankenstein what their goal was here, and the doctor (how had he even ended up on this test? Weren't all the doctors and science-y minded people snapped up by the higher ups?) had said it was just to maintain the base.
That was it.
Nothing about imposters.
Tao blew the hair away from his eyes, braiding Takeo's hair. "What do you think about Muzaka?"
Takeo didn't say anything for a few seconds, braiding the rest of his hair. "He spends a lot of time with Em..."
Tao nodded. "Yeah." If Em was an imposter (and he absolutely was), then anyone he spent time with was in danger. Except Muzaka was friendly with Em, even if Em was a little twitchy around him. "It'd be pretty easy for Em to kill Muzaka-" Like when Tao and Takeo had found them alone in the boiler room. "-so Muzaka has to be the other imposter." It made the most sense. From the digging he'd been able to do into the Union's database, tests usually only placed two imposters at max per group.
"Here, anyway," Tao amended. He hadn't recognised everyone he'd shared the dropship with, so who knew just how many imposters there were walking around.
But they had a start, and now they just had to make sure they weren't alone with either Em or Muzaka.